Ontario News

OTTAWA — With a 1-4-1 record the Redblacks hardly look like a team in position to contend for the East Division, but just three points separate Ottawa from the first place Toronto Argonauts.

A group of mayors from Canada and the U.S. has dropped its challenge to a decision allowing an American city to draw water from the Great Lakes, saying it has secured an agreement to improve the review of similar applications in the future.

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is facing legal action from several environmental groups who accuse the government of dragging its heels on investigating Volkswagen for duping Canadians with diesel engines.

TORONTO — After 16 years, Dina Alker is going to put her house in Toronto up for sale Monday, joining the throngs of others in the city who have decided to downsize as a chill gripping what was once one of the hottest real estate markets in North Ame

TORONTO — The OPP continue to search for the owner of an air mattress that caused a fatal crash in Welland, Ont. last month. Sgt.

WASHINGTON — A leaked transcript of a Donald Trump phone call shows the president's private comments about trade with Canada, and suggests he had an overwhelmingly positive attitude about the northern neighbour as he took office.

TORONTO — Investigators looking into an Ontario cottage fire that killed a family of four on Christmas Eve said Thursday that a lack of smoke alarms in the vaulted ceiling of the residence was a key factor in the deaths.

BROSSARD, Que. — Quebec provincial police were searching Thursday for a truck involved in a hit and run near Montreal that left one person dead in a car.

MONCTON, N.B. — Ottawa will bring "absolutely every protection to bear" to protect and bolster right whales following 10 deaths in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since early June, says federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc. LeBlanc told a Moncton, N.

HEMMINGFORD, Que. — The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier.